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R. APPLETON. KNIT FABRIC.

' No. 395,942. Patented Jan; 8, 1889.

WITNESSES: INVE/VTOR ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS. Pholn'lithognpher, Waullingion. D. C.

STATES ATENT Fries.

KNIT FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,942, dated January8, 1889. Application filed $eptember 18, 1885. Serial No. 177,443.(Specimens) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT M. APPLETON, of Lake Village, in the countyof l-lclknap and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Knit Fabrics, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has referenceto an improved knit fabric which is made oncircular-knit ting machines driven by power and used either for circularor seamless articles of underwear or cut into proper shape and sewed up.

Knit fabrics have heretofore been made citherin plain-stitch knitting orin tuck-stitch knitting throughout the body of the fabric, orcombinations of these stitches have been made so that alternatingstripes of .knitting of one kind and of the other kind are obtained.This alternating striping of thev fabric, however, is connected withconsiderable expense, as it requires a change of presser-wheels by handwhen a change of knitting is required. It can therefore only be appliedto goods in which this change occurs not too frequently, but is notsuitable when the alternating stripes are narrow, so that the change ofpresserwheels has to be made often.

The invention consists in a seamless knit fabric composed of alternatingstripes of plain and tuck stitch knitting, said stripes extendingspirally around the fabric, and part of the stitches of eachcircumferential row of stitches being tuck-stitches and the remainingpart of the row plain stitches, the ends of the tuckstitch parts of therows forming oifsets in the contour or edges of the stripes.

I11 the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of atubular piece of my improved knit fabric. Fig. 2 is an elevation or faceview 'of a part of the same on a larger scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A in the drawings represents a seamless knit fabric, which is made on awell-known power knitting-machine of any desired size. A spiral stripe,a, of tuck-stitch knitting eX- tends eircumferentially around the fabricA and forms with the intermediate, also spiral, stripe, b, ofplain-stitch knitting seemingly horizontal alternating circumferentialstripes.

In Fig. 2, d (l (1 &c., to (1 represent sixteen rows of loops orstitches. In the first row, (1, there are six tuck-stitches insuccession, the tuck-stitch knitting extending to the point 0, where itchanges to plain-stitch knitting of eighteen successive stitches, andthen again changes to the tuck-stitch knitting. In

the second row, (Z there are twelve tuckstitches in succession, whichextend to the point c that is, six tuck-stitches beyond the point cthentherearc eighteen plain stitches in succession, and then tuck-stitchesagain, and so on. In the third row, if, there are eighteen tuck-stitches in succession, then eighteen plain stitches, and so on, thetuckstitches extending to the point c that is, six stitches beyond thepoint 0 In the fourth row, d, the tuck-stitches begin at a point in linewith the point e and extend for eighteen stitches, when the stitchchanges to plainstitch knitting. In the fifth row, (7 the tuckstitchbegins at a point below the point c and extends for the length ofeighteen stitches in succession, and then changes to plain stitch.

In the sixth row the tuck-stitches begin at a point below the point 0and extend for the length of eighteen stitches, and then change to plainstitch, and so on. In each row in the completed stocking groups ofeighteen successive tuck -stitches alternate with groups of eighteensuccessive plain stitches. In the spiral stripes of tuck-stitch knittingthere is an offset at the top and bottom at every sixth stitch. Insteadof making the offset at every sixth stitch it can be made after anydesired number of stitches. The width of the spiral stripe oftuck-stitch may be, as shown, equal to three rows of stitches, but maybe made of two rows or more rows, but not less than two rows.

The circular-knit fabric thus obtained is either used in its circularseamless shape or it is cut up and sewed together, according to the kindof underwear to be made from the same.v Articles of underwear can thusbe made with alternating stripes of plain-stitch knitting andtuck-stitch knitting, of which the plain-stitch knitting has thetendency to draw in the body of the fabric, while the stripes oftuck-stitch knitting admit of the drawing out of the fabric, whereby thesame is rendered more elastic.

stitch parts .fm-ining'ol't'si s in thei'a'mtiours oi the stripes andthe plain stitch parts likewise forming o'i'lfsets corresponding tothose of the tuck-stitch parts, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

In testimony that I claim the loregoin as my invention I have signed myname in pres enee oi. two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT M. APITJEJTON.

Witnesses:

THUMAS VI lAM, E. II. BLAISDELL.

